To Shut Down Trolls, Amitabh Bachchan Lists Down His Charitable Work, Calls It 'Embarrassing'

First, it was their vacation pictures from Maldives and Goa, and then it was their silence for which many Bollywood stars were subjected to online hate and trolls. Addressing them all at once in his blog, Amitabh Bachchan listed down the charitable work he has done during the second wave of Covid-19 in India.

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"Yes I do charity, but have ever believed it to be done, than spoken of... it is embarrassing, in too great a self-consciousness.. Of one that has ever felt shy of public presence despite the profession- one that has to find its usp in public domains is relevant today for me..," he wrote.

Furthermore, talking about the online pressure and everyday abuse, he divulged details of his charitable works. From waiving off farmers' loans to helping the kind of Pulwama martyrs, here's all Big B listed down.

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" Over a 1,500 farmers bank loans paid off by my personal fund and prevented them from suicide, as the suicides grew.. from Andhra Maharashtra, UP et al.. calling them over after identifying with respective banks and getting them all to Janak and in the presence of the bank representatives, paying them in person and getting them to strike off the loan, giving each farmer the document that they did not owe any more, that their loan was over and completed and paid back to the bank.. some 300 odd from UP could not all be present.. a bogie in the train booked for a limited number of 30 to 50 of them, from their respective cities in UP, received in Mumbai, brought over to Janak, fed and given the loan cancellation certificate and put back on the train to their homes.. all at my expense.. ", he wrote.

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About COVID relief work he and his family has done, Sr Bachchan said, "Those that suffered during the COVID last year.. providing food for over 400,000 daily wage earners in the country for a month.. feeding almost 5,000 in the city each day lunch and dinner.."

"Provided masks, PPE units to front line warriors.. Police Hospitals in the thousands.. through personal funds.. donating to the Sikh Committee that was helping the migrants to travel back home in the Inter State buses, where the drivers were mostly Sikhs.."

"Booked an entire train from Mumbai to UP to carry 2,800 migrant passengers free of cost at my expense.. and when the destination State blocked the train from coming into their State and cancelled the train.. immediately chartered 3 IndiGo Airline planes and flew almost 180 migrants in each flight to UP and Bihar and some to Rajasthan and J&K..".

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He confirmed about donating Rs 2 crore to a Covid-19 facility in Delhi,

"And as the virus spread, donated an entire Diagnostic Centre .. opened at Bangla Sahib Gurudwara in Delhi through the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee, set up in the premises of the Gurudwara for medical help for the poor and needy .. an MRI machine and other Sonographic and Scan equipments of expenses beyond my means, but set up inspite .. in the memory of my Nana , Naani and my Mother ..

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These were the words of @SrBachchan Ji when he contributed ?2 Cr to Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Covid Care Facility

While Delhi was grappling for Oxygen, Amitabh Ji called me almost daily to enquire about the progress of this Facility@ANI pic.twitter.com/ysOccz28Fl

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"A 250 to 450 bed care center set up with further donation at the Rakabganj Sahib Gurudwara today in Delhi and soon to procure for them O2 ( Oxygen ) concentrators, not in stock or easily available , from overseas limited stock to be donated to Delhi where the need is immense and some to Mumbai .. coming in within the week .. 50 of them coming in from Poland by 15th and the rest around 150 from perhaps the US .. orders placed , some have arrived and given to the Hospital in need .. "